The Very Best of English Song (original 2CD version) [CD]

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Song Title Artist Time Price   1. Linden Lea - A Dorset song (1994 - Remaster) Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 2:51 £0.89   2. Songs Sacred and Profane (2003 Digital Remaster): 4. The Salley Gardens Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 2:14 £0.89   3. English Lyrics Set II (2003 Digital Remaster): 1. O mistress mine Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 1:32 £0.89   4. Three Songs Op. 3 (1994 Digital Remaster): 1. Love's Philosophy Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 1:32 £0.89   5. Now sleeps the crimson petal Op. 3 No. 2 Sir Thomas Allen/Geoffrey Parsons 2:13 £0.89   6. In summertime on Bredon Sir Thomas Allen/Geoffrey Parsons 3:44 £0.89   7. Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (2001 Digital Remaster): I. Loveliest of trees Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:51 £0.89   8. Down by the Salley Gardens (2001 Digital Remaster) Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:34 £0.89   9. Black Stitchel (2001 Digital Remaster) Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:10 £0.89 10. My Own Country (2001 Digital Remaster) Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:34 £0.89 11. Passing By (2001 Digital Remaster) Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:30 £0.89 12. Pretty Ring Time (2001 Digital Remaster) Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 1:17 £0.89 13. Ten Blake Songs: 5. The Lamb Ian Partridge/Janet Craxton 2:16 £0.89 14. Ten Blake Songs: 6. The Shepherd [oboe tacet] Ian Partridge 0:56 £0.89 15. Silent Noon (No. 2 of The House of Life) Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 4:16 £0.89 16. Come away, death, Op.6 No. 1 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 3:02 £0.89 17. Since we loved, Op.13 No. 7 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 1:16 £0.89 18. Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15: 6. Rollicum-Rorum Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles 2:01 £0.89 19. Sea Fever Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles 2:11 £0.89 20. Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2) Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles 2:23 £0.89 21. Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) (2003 Digital Remaster): I. Drake's Drum (Tempo di marcia moderato) Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker 2:43 £0.89 22. Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) (2003 Digital Remaster): V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace) Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker 3:25 £0.89 23. Four Indian Love Lyrics: 3. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar (Kashmiri Song) Frederick Harvey/Jack Byfield 3:02 £0.89 24. Bless this House Dame Janet Baker/Sir Philip Ledger 3:16 £0.89 25. Balulalow (wds Wedderburn brothers after Luther) (1994 Digital Remaster) Dame Janet Baker/Sir Philip Ledger 1:49 £0.89 26. Tom Bowling Robert Tear/André Previn 4:19 £0.89 27. Home! Sweet Home! Robert Tear/André Previn 3:36 £0.89 28. Come into the garden, Maud (1993 Digital Remaster) Robert Tear/André Previn 4:12 £0.89 29. Folk Song Arrangement: The Foggy, Foggy Dew (2000 Digital Remaster) Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger 2:24 £0.89 30. Folk Song Arrangement: The Plough Boy (2000 Digital Remaster) Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger 1:50 £0.89 31. Façade - An entertainment with poems by Edith Sitwell (2000 Digital Remaster): 19. Popular Song Fenella Fielding/Michael Flanders/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner 2:00 £0.89

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Song Title Artist Time Price   1. Greensleeves [solo lute verse at end cut] (1995 Digital Remaster) Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 2:11 £0.89   2. Two songs: It was a lover and his lasse (The First Booke of Ayres or Little Short Songs) (As you like it) Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 3:10 £0.89   3. Two songs: O mistress mine (attrib. Morley; arr. from The First Booke of Consort Lessons) (Twelfth Night) Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 1:39 £0.89   4. The Willow Song (Othello) (1995 Digital Remaster) Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 4:16 £0.89   5. Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster) Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 1:14 £0.89   6. Full fathom five (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster) Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 2:12 £0.89   7. Lullaby, my sweet little baby [last verse cut] Michael Chance/Fretwork 5:59 £0.89   8. Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye sacred muses) Michael Chance/Christopher Wilson 4:08 £0.89   9. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Sorrow, stay! Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 3:04 £0.89 10. Can she excuse my wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres) Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 2:31 £0.89 11. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: Awake, sweet love (The First Booke of Songes) Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 2:48 £0.89 12. Woeful heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 2:51 £0.89 13. Shall I sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) Charles Daniels/David Miller 2:36 £0.89 14. Me, me and none but me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires) Charles Daniels/David Miller 2:11 £0.89 15. Flow, my tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) Charles Daniels/David Miller 3:51 £0.89 16. King Arthur, Z.628: Fairest isle Nancy Argenta/Nigel North 2:36 £0.89 17. Oedipus, Z.583: Music for a while Nancy Argenta/John Toll 3:55 £0.89 18. I attempt from love's sickness to fly, Z.630 Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson 2:02 £0.89 19. If music be the food of love (1st setting), Z.379 Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/John Toll 2:05 £0.89 20. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z.193 Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson 5:27 £0.89 21. Yarmouth Fair (1994 Digital Remaster) Owen Brannigan/Ernest Lush 1:40 £0.89 22. The Smuggler's Song (2003 Digital Remaster) Owen Brannigan/Gerald Moore 3:37 £0.89 23. Down Below (2003 Digital Remaster) Ian Wallace/Donald Swann 2:44 £0.89 24. A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) (2003 Digital Remaster) Ian Wallace/Donald Swann 2:35 £0.89 25. The Wart Hog (2003 Digital Remaster) Ian Wallace/Donald Swann 3:48 £0.89 26. The Hippopotamus Song [introduced by Michael Flanders] (1991 Digital Remaster) Michael Flanders/Donald Swann 4:02 £0.89

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